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In addition to its Mailing lists, SOWN uses Internet Relay Chat (IRC) as one of its main mechanisms for communicating with each other outside of meetings and/or Workshops. Automated messages from our monitoring services (Nagios) are also sent to the channel so people can quickly notice a problem.

So that our important technical discussions don't get lost we log our IRC channel. These logs are indexed so that you can search for a particular conversation. We use various colours to highlight different messages.

Someone joining the channel

Someone leaving the channel

Someone performing an action in the channel

sown-bot speaking. Usually to report a problem or recovery of a node or a response to someone's query of a node's status.